Artist: Nickel Creek
Genre(s):
Country
Discography:
Why Should The Fire Die?
Year:
Tracks: 14
This Side
Year:
Tracks: 13
Distinguished by their youth and eclecticist gustatory esthesis, Nickel Creek became a pipeline sense datum on the progressive bluegrass scene and in brief set up their appeal spreading beyond the genre's core audience. Guitarist Sean Watkins, fiddler Sara Watkins (his jr. sister), and mandolin/banjo/bouzouki musician Chris Thile number 1 started acting together in 1989, when all deuce-ace were preteens and taking medicine lessons in their native San Diego. They met spell observation the local band Bluegrass Etc., which put on weekly performances in a pizza sitting room. A bluegrass Region plugger liked the estimate of such a young band, and so Nickel Creek was formed, with Thile's fatherhood Scott connexion them on bass. Nickel Creek were regulars on the festival lap through most of the '90s, and during that time, Thile recorded iI solo albums, 1994's Leading Off... and 1997's Stealth Second. In 1998, with help from Alison Krauss, Nickel Creek landed a record conduct with the roots medical specialty label Sugar Hill. Krauss produced their self-titled debut album, which was released in 2000; with the kids ostensibly all right, Scott afterward retired from the ring. Though it was by all odds a bluegrass record, Atomic number 28 Creek boasted elements of classic, jazz, and rock 'n' roll & undulate both classical and alternative; naturally, the influence of progressive bluegrass Country figures like Krauss, Edgar Meyer, and Béla Fleck was overly apparent. Perhaps assisted by the success of O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which brought traditional roots music to a george Ellery Hale new collegiate audience, Nickel Creek became a slow-building polish off; by other 2002, it had done for gold, climbed into the country Top 20, and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Bluegrass Album. Meanwhile, Sean released his solo debut, Allow It Fall, in 2001, and Thile followed suit with Not All Who Wander Are Lost. Nickel Creek released their sophomore mend, This Side, in 2002; it debuted in the Top 20 of the pop charts and went all the fashion to number iI on the area listings. Even more eclectic than its forerunner, the Krauss-produced album off indie rock'n'roll fans' heads with a cover of Pavement's "Spittle on a Stranger." This Side north Korean won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album in early 2003, subsequently which Sean issued his endorsement solo album, 26 Miles. In 2005, the chemical mathematical group worked with producers Tony Berg and Eric Valentine (the latter had worked with Smash Mouth and Queens of the Stone Age) to produce Why Should the Fire Die?, a dark and introspective accumulation of new material that ground the trinity steering even farther out from their bluegrass beginnings. In mid-2006, Nickel Creek announced it would be pickings an indefinite hiatus following a scheduled circuit of duty the conterminous year, so its members could centralize on solo ferment.
